<div class="gmail_quote">Hello, </div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">This weekend <span style="font-family:Times;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:georgia, times, serif;font-size:15px;line-height:22px">I'll be speaking on a panel on Friday at the <a href="http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/lgbts/events/current.html" target="_blank">UCLA Queer Studies Conference</a> on the topic of "Wearable Electronics as Femme Disturbance", discussing <a href="http://bang.calit2.net/wiki/Mixedrelations-viruscircus" target="_blank">virus.circus</a> and my new project, <a href="http://www.annenberglab.com/project/Autonets-LocalAutonomyNetworks/Concept/124" target="_blank">Autonets</a>. The panel is going to be amazing with lots of other digital media scholars!</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> I am so honored to be on this panel with them. </span><span style="font-family:Times;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:georgia, times, serif;font-size:15px;line-height:22px">I can't wait! Also, I'm going to be showing some new wearable electronics from the <a href="http://www.annenberglab.com/project/Autonets-LocalAutonomyNetworks/Concept/124" target="_blank">Autonets</a> series in the Queerture Fashion show.</span><div style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);padding-top:10px;padding-right:10px;padding-bottom:10px;padding-left:10px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;font-family:georgia, times, serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6em;font-style:normal;min-height:380px;background-repeat:initial initial">
<p>3:00 – 4:15 Royce 306<br><b>Techno-Queer Self Fashioning: Digital Theory by Digital Praxis<br></b>Moderator:<br>Michael Stambolis, Sociology, University of California – Los Angeles<br></p><p>Speakers:<br></p><p>“The Real and the Fake: Asian American Digitality, Drag Kings, & ‘All of Me’”<br>
Margaret Rhee, Ethnic Studies, University of California – Berkeley</p><p>“Borrowed Time: Fan Video and Queer Temporality through a Cylon Digital Remix Machine”<br>Alexis Lothian, English, University of Southern California</p>
<p>“Please Select Gender: Video Games and Butch Expression”<br>Amanda Phillips, English, University of California – Santa Barbara</p><p>“Wearable Electronics as Femme Disturbance: Sex Positive Community Responses to Gendered Violence”<br>
Micha Cárdenas, Interdivisional Media Arts and Practice, University of Southern California</p><p>For Immediate Release<br>Contact: Tania Hammidi, Artistic Director<br>queerture at gmail d0t c0m</p><p>QUEERTURE: QUEER + COUTURE<br>
Featuring LGBTQ designers, stylists and fashion illustration</p><p>LOS ANGELES October 15, 2011 6 - 7pm -- An epic LGBTQ fashion show is befalling the UCLA campus as the final event of a two-day conference “Queer Fashion,” organized by UCLA’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies Program. According to Artistic Director Tania Hammidi, “this show is a sartorial meeting of the super-powers; we’re featuring LGBTQ models, designers, and stylists to produce a show that busts the seams of classic runway shows.”</p>
<p>Queerture 2011 is hosting a spectrum of L G B T Q I A designs, styles, and struts – from fierce femme style to trans wearable electronics, from vintage & suited dapperness to contemporary urban wear, from boxers to one-of-a-kind hats. Free and open to the public. JOIN US!</p>
<p>Location: 314 Royce Hall, UCLA Campus<br>Parking: Lot 5, $11<br>Directions: <a href="http://www.uclalive.org/visit/royce_hall.asp" target="_blank">http://www.uclalive.org/visit/royce_hall.asp</a><br>Sponsored: by over 28 UCLA departments and units</p>
<p>Fashion designs by: Styling by:<br>Studs Clothing and Debonair Laura Luna-Creative Xicana<br>Michael and Hushi Dapper Dyke-Vivian Escalante<br>Stafford & Shelton<br>Jimmy Au's Suits for Men 5’ 8” and Under, with stylist Leon Wu<br>
Micha Cárdenas and Adam Tinnel</p><p>Performance and Installation:<br>Pre-show, "Shrouds of Aloha's Kiki" by Aloha Tolentino<br>Costume design from performance artist Nao Bustamante<br>Installation by Guinevere Turner<br>
Durational fashion performance “Mountain” by Aaron Valenzuela</p><p>Make-Up/Hair: Fashion Illustration:<br>Pony Lee Estrange Maria Leung<br>Sparrow Fox Karen Dhillon<br>Aubrie Davis Lindsay Fackrell<br>Color Beat Los Angeles</p>
</div></span><div><br></div><font color="#888888">-- <br>micha cárdenas<br>PhD Student, Media Arts and Practice, University of Southern California<br>Provost Fellow, University of Southern California<br><br>Co-Author, Trans Desire / Affective Cyborgs, Atropos Press, <a href="http://is.gd/daO00" target="_blank">http://is.gd/daO00</a><br>
<br>HASTAC Scholar, <a href="http://hastac.org" target="_blank">http://hastac.org</a><br><br>blog: <a href="http://transreal.org" target="_blank">http://transreal.org</a><br><br><br><br>
</font></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>micha cárdenas<br>PhD Student, Media Arts and Practice, University of Southern California<br>Provost Fellow, University of Southern California<br><br>Co-Author, Trans Desire / Affective Cyborgs, Atropos Press, <a href="http://is.gd/daO00" target="_blank">http://is.gd/daO00</a><br>
<br>HASTAC Scholar, <a href="http://hastac.org" target="_blank">http://hastac.org</a><br><br>blog: <a href="http://transreal.org" target="_blank">http://transreal.org</a><br><br><br><br>